Gael Garcia thanked his 'compas' at the first Zapatista film festival

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Gael Garcia and Subcomandante Galeano in the first Zapatista film festival.

Gael Garcia and Subcomandante Galeano in the first Zapatista film festival. (Courtesy)

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Excited, Gael Garcia Bernal thanked the Zapatistas for the recognition of his work and his participation in the Puy ta Cuxlejaltic Film Festival (Caracol de Nuestra Vida), which took place November 1st to the 9th.

On the second day of the first edition of the film event organized by the EZLN (Zapatista Army of National Liberation), Garcia, the protagonist of the film 'Museo', was handed the Caracol Award by two children from the community in Ovenic, Chiapas.

“Everything I put on Instagram will be tremendously frivolous, so I'd like to prepare the meme for this photo before anyone does it: 'make the revolution with someone who looks at you like...' ... or whatever. Any recollection or true picture of this experience will be a part of me and of 'our common heritage and collective memory...'.”

“And well, how beautiful it is to be in a place where we can share utopias. Among so many horizons, that conversation immediately bonds us, makes us 'compas',” Garcia wrote in a photograph in which he posed with Subcomandante Galeano, leader of the movement.

Committed to political and environmental causes, Gael recently spoke in favor of legalizing abortion in Argentina.

The contest, which promotes and recognizes films that portray events of social interest, also recognized the work of filmmakers like Pamela Yates, Ilsa Salas, Marta Ferrer, Rocio Martinez Ts'ujul, Concepcion Suarez and Inti Cordera, who were not in assistance.

Some of the works that were exhibited with good reviews were Seeds of Guamuchil, 500 years: A Life in Resistance, and To Die in the Deserts.